Joy Davenport
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I make documentaries and other stuff | she/her 🏳️⚧️
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it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
Happened to me just the other day
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 12,1944
October 12,1944
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happened to me just the other day
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"It takes hundreds of years to grow, and it takes maybe a week for bulldozers to come in and take it all out." Conservation group working to save what makes #Florida "Florida." www.tampabay28.com/news/local-n... via @tampabay28.bsky.social
What makes Florida, Florida?: One clue, it's not Disney World
Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska's has been trekking deep into the Florida Wildlife Corridor, highlighting efforts by conservation photographers, non-profits, to save Florida's last wild places.
www.tampabay28.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"It takes hundreds of years to grow, and it takes maybe a week for bulldozers to come in and take it all out." Conservation group working to save what makes #Florida "Florida." www.tampabay28.com/news/local-n... via @tampabay28.bsky.social
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ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
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"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
www.the-reframe.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
Every time someone uses ChatGPT in my presence it is exactly the same as watching them strip naked and take a shit in the middle of the floor. Stop doing that. Stop shitting on the floor and smiling as if I should act impressed.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Every time someone uses ChatGPT in my presence it is exactly the same as watching them strip naked and take a shit in the middle of the floor. Stop doing that. Stop shitting on the floor and smiling as if I should act impressed.
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I forget, from having lived in Tallahassee, that YIMBY has an honorable meaning many places. In Tallahassee, developers and corrupt city commissioners have used the idea to just greenlight everything without a plan, subsidized by taxpayers, to get the worst of sprawl *and* a facade of urban infill.
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I forget, from having lived in Tallahassee, that YIMBY has an honorable meaning many places. In Tallahassee, developers and corrupt city commissioners have used the idea to just greenlight everything without a plan, subsidized by taxpayers, to get the worst of sprawl *and* a facade of urban infill.
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
This week I started a new full-time job and a workout program with a personal trainer...who even am I...?
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This week I started a new full-time job and a workout program with a personal trainer...who even am I...?
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.
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everyone drop everything lock in and shut the fuck up RIGHT NOW
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
everyone drop everything lock in and shut the fuck up RIGHT NOW
Last night I made a dinner so good I stunlocked myself, be careful out there folks
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Last night I made a dinner so good I stunlocked myself, be careful out there folks
Sometimes when we're cuddling my cat will wake up and do a big full body flex and stretch like a Super Saiyan powering up and I just think that's beautiful
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sometimes when we're cuddling my cat will wake up and do a big full body flex and stretch like a Super Saiyan powering up and I just think that's beautiful
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I feel like being a tortoise would be pretty chill. Never have to move fast, eat as much salad as you want, be your own house. Sure there would be inconveniences, but also you don’t have to pay taxes
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I feel like being a tortoise would be pretty chill. Never have to move fast, eat as much salad as you want, be your own house. Sure there would be inconveniences, but also you don’t have to pay taxes
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Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
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Kim battles comphet and billionaires in Dark Science High School #7! dresdencodak.com/2025/11/24/d...
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Kim battles comphet and billionaires in Dark Science High School #7! dresdencodak.com/2025/11/24/d...
After turning off the AI "smart features" in gmail my inbox now permanently has two unread ghost emails that I cannot find and cannot clear. So now I know I have a new email when the number ticks up to three. I guess that's what I get for not wanting my email to be smart.
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After turning off the AI "smart features" in gmail my inbox now permanently has two unread ghost emails that I cannot find and cannot clear. So now I know I have a new email when the number ticks up to three. I guess that's what I get for not wanting my email to be smart.
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
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[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga